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-#+TITLE: Tomb User Manual
-#+AUTHOR: Jaromil @ Dyne.org
-
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-*Abstract*: Tomb is a cryptographic application that helps you store
- private and confidential data into volumes secured by keys and
- passwords. It works on GNU/Linux operating systems, both for desktop
- and remote shell usage, presenting users with with an intuitive
- command-line interface. This manual will outline the basic usage of
- Tomb, from getting started to the everyday drill, plus tips and
- recommendations on advanced usage and data safety.
-
-#+KEYWORDS: Crypto, Storage, Luks, Cryptsetup, DM-Crypt, Privacy, Secrecy
-
-#+EXCLUDE_KEYWORD: noexport
-
-
-
-[TABLE-OF-CONTENTS]
-
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-
-* This user manual is obsolete, please refer to *man tomb*
-
-* Why Tomb?
-
-** Privacy and freedom
-
-The internet offers plenty of free services, on the wave of the Web2.0
-fuzz and the community boom, while all private informations are hosted
-on servers owned by global corporations and monopolies.
-
-It is important to keep in mind that no-one else better than *you* can
-ensure the privacy of your personal data. Server hosted services and
-web integrated technologies gather all data into huge information
-pools that are made available to established economical and cultural
-regimes.
-
-*This software urges you to reflect on the importance of your
-privacy*. World is full of prevarication and political imprisonments,
-war rages in several places and media is mainly used for propaganda by
-the powers in charge. Some of us face the dangers of being tracked by
-oppressors opposing our self definition, independent thinking and
-resistance to omologation.
-
-#+BEGIN_QUOTE
- "The distinction between what is public and what is private is
- becoming more and more blurred with the increasing intrusiveness of
- the media and advances in electronic technology. While this
- distinction is always the outcome of continuous cultural
- negotiation, it continues to be critical, for where nothing is
- private, democracy becomes impossible."
-
-(from [[http://www.newschool.edu/centers/socres/privacy/Home.html][Privacy Conference, Social Research, New School University]])
-#+END_QUOTE
-
-
-** Who needs Tomb
-
-[[file:tomb_and_bats.png]]
-
-Tomb improves the usability patterns of every-day cryptography and
-relies on military-grade algorithms to grant a level of secrecy for
-stored data that is very hard to break by most military organisations
-and law enforcement agencies.
-
-Our target community are GNU/Linux users with no time to click around,
-sometimes using old or borrowed computers, operating in places
-endangered by conflict where a leak of personal data can be a threat.
-
-For example, if one doesn't owns a laptop or simply doesn't likes to
-carry a computer around, Tomb functions as a secure on-line and
-off-line storage for data and programs. On a desktop computer, Tomb
-can store some files locked using a /key/ which can be carried with
-you and hidden into images. Tomb can do that also on a remote shell
-and setup a ready environment every time its opened by mounting
-personal directories in place using /bind hooks/.
-
-
-** Under the Hood
-
-Tomb provides military-grade encryption at the reach of your
-fingertips, fostering best practices and saving users the time to look
-into the details of /LUKS/ volumes and /cryptsetup/. Rather than
-reinventing the wheel, Tomb relies only on peer-reviewed, free and
-open source software components: at its core is DM-Crypt[fn:dm-crypt]
-which is part of the Linux kernel architecture.
-
-
-For better clarity, Tomb is written in shell script and its code can
-be reviewed any time. More specifically, Tomb is written in ZSh, but
-can be used also from Bash.
-
-Tomb is written in a way that promotes privilege separation: a system
-can let its users execute the script as root, resting assured that it
-will drop privileges when unneeded.
-
-The key files in Tomb are generated using high entropy random and
-protected via symmetric cryptography using GnuPG. The combination of a
-key and its password allow to open a tomb: the key contents are used
-to encrypt LUKS volumes mounted in loopback. The password is asked
-using /Pinentry/ programs to protect from common software keyloggers
-and measures are taken to avoid leaving traces on any permanent
-storage.
-
-** Yet another tool?
-
-\index{dyne:bolic}
-
-Tomb is an evolution of the /Nesting/ tool developed in 2001 for the
-[[http://www.dynebolic.org][Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux distribution]]: a /nomadic system/ to encrypt the
-Home directory of users and have it ready for use on different
-machines. At that time, Tomb was the first secure implementation of
-what nowadays we call /persistent storage/ in live operating systems.
-
-[[file:foster_privacy.png]]
-
-Later on we've felt the urgency to publishing this mechanism for other
-operating systems than dyne:bolic since the current situation in
-personal desktop encryption is far from optimal. Let's have a look.
-
-\index{truecrypt} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt][TrueCrypt]] makes use of statically linked libraries
-so that its code is hard to audit, plus is [[http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2008-October/000276.html][not considered free]] by free
-operating system distributors because of liability reasons, see
-[[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364034][Debian]], [[https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109701][Ubuntu]], [[http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2008-10/msg00055.html][Suse]], [[http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241650][Gentoo]] and [[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#TrueCrypt][Fedora]]. For these and other reasons -
-presumably very sad ones for its users - Truecrypt has also been
-discontinued.
-
-
-\index{cryptkeeper}
-[[http://tom.noflag.org.uk/cryptkeeper.html][Cryptkeeper]] is the best alternative to Tomb out there and its main
-advantage consists in not needing root access on the machine it's
-being used. But Cryptkeeper still has drawbacks: it uses [[http://www.arg0.net/encfs][EncFS]] which
-implements weaker encryption than dm-crypt and it doesn't promotes the
-separated storage of keys.
-
-At last, the [[https://we.riseup.net/debian/automatically-mount-encrypted-home][Encrypted home]] mechanisms on operating systems as Debian
-and Ubuntu adopt encryption algorithms as strong as Tomb does, but
-they need to be configured when the machine is installed, they cannot
-be easily transported and again they don't promote separated storage
-of keys.
-
-With Tomb we try to overcome all these limitations providing /strong
-encryption/, encouraging users to /separate keys from data/ and
-letting them transport tombs around easily. Also to facilitate
-auditing and customization we intend to:
-
- - write code that is short, readable and well documented
- - use commonly available shared components whenever possible
- - facilitate integration into desktop and graphical interfaces
- - keep the development process open and distributed using Git
- - distribute Tomb under the GNU General Public License v3
-
-If you believe this is a worthy effort, you are welcome to [[http://dyne.org/donate][support it]].
-
-* TODO Getting Started
-
-** Build
-
-Tomb at its core consists of a single Z-Shell script which has to be run as root, plus a few common dependencies that must be present on the system:
-
- - *Zsh* http://www.zsh.org
- - *Cryptsetup*
- - *Sudo*
- - *GnuPG* http://www.gnupg.org
- - *Pinentry*
-
-Provided the programs above are installed and root access is available on the system, *the impatient user can just skip the rest of this section, download the bare Tomb script and use it*. The nitpickers out there are right to wonder about running a script as root, so please be welcome to [[http://tomb.dyne.org/codedoc][review Tomb's code]]. Those running on [[http://www.dynebolic.org][Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux]] can simply skip this step since our operating system already contains a fully featured version of Tomb.
-
-In addition to the core script there are a number of optional packages that, if present on the system, will be used by Tomb to enhance the user experience, add features and improve security.
-
-To start a full build make sure you know some command-line basics, then [[http://files.dyne.org/tomb/releases][download the full stable source distribution of Tomb]], unpack it and read on.
-
-: tar xvfz Tomb-1.3.tar.gz
-: cd Tomb
-
-Be welcome to the making of your tomb.
-
-*** Security extras
-
-To make the steganography feature available, that is the possibility to hide keys inside images, one needs to install the *steghide* software on your system.
-
-To insure secure deletion of all Tomb traces temporary written in memory or on storage by Tomb, one should install *wipe*.
-
-To enable the anti-bruteforce feature, KDF libs should be installed and they often require a recent version of GLib-2[fn:debglib]
-
-[fn:debglib] On Debian 6.0 for instance the version of GLib-2 is too old and should be installed from source or from backports
-
-*** Usability extras
-
-To have a progress bar that informs about the status of tomb creation steps, one should install *dcfldd* which is an enhanced version of the simple /dd/ UNIX tool.
-
-If Tomb is used locally on a graphical desktop, one might prefer to use a graphical dialog to input the password, then install *pinentry-gtk* or *pinentry-qt*.
-
-To compile the *gtk-tray* component that shows the open tomb in your desktop tray, make sure the following packages are installed (this list matches package names for Debian/Ubuntu distributions:
-
-: build-essential autoconf libtool gtk2.0-dev libnotify-dev zsh pinentry-curses pinentry-gtk2
-
-*** Binary builds
-
-Once all the extra dependencies are in place on your system, to build the gtk-tray or the KDF components, one should run the usual commands:
-
-: ./configure
-: make
-
-This will autodetect the capabilities of the system and build binary helper applications needed for those two extra functions. Any other feature in Tomb does not require compiling anything.
-
-** Installation
-
-After running the configure-make combo to compile binaries it is
-possible to simply use *make install* to copy several files in place,
-including the main tomb script, image resources for the gtk pinentry
-and manuals.
-
-Assuming the prefix is /usr/local paths for installation are:
-
- - /usr/local/bin/tomb
- - /usr/local/share/tomb
-
-
-*** Multi-user systems
-
-When installed on systems used by multiple users, Tomb can be made
-available to all of them even without granting root access. Simply add
-this line to */etc/sudoers* (using the visudo command as root) for
-each user you like to enable to build and use tombs:
-
-: username ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/tomb
-
-Tomb is built with this possibility in mind and its code is reviewed
-to make this setup safe, so that a user cannot escalate to the
-privilege of a full root shell on the system, but just handle Tombs.
-
-* Tombs in your pockets
-
-* Tombs in the clouds
-
-** Server requirements
-
-When creating a tomb make sure the device mapper is loaded among kernel modules
-or creation will fail and leave you in the dust.
-
-modprobe dm_mod
-modprobe dm_crypt
-
-** Automatic doors
-
-When logging out of a server it is very easy to forget and leave
-behind open tombs.
-
-Using a simple cronjob will make sure that all tombs on server are
-closed automatically if the user who opened them is no more logged in:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-#!/bin/zsh
-PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
-tombs=`find /media -name "*tomb"`
-for i in ${(f)tombs}; do
- { test -r ${i}/.tty } && {
- tty=`cat ${i}/.tty`
- uid=`cat ${i}/.uid`
- if [ -r ${tty} ]; then
- ttyuid=`ls -ln ${tty} | awk '{print $3}'`
- { test "$ttyuid" = "$uid" } || { tomb close ${i} }
- else tomb close ${i}; fi
- }
-done
-return 0
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-This script assumes all tombs are opened inside the /media folder and
-that the 'tomb' script is included in root's PATH. Feel free to adapt
-it to your needs and then add it to root's cronjob so that it is run
-every minute.
-
-** Lack of entropy
-
-To create a tomb key on a server (especially VPS) the problem becomes
-the lack of available entropy. Generating keys on a desktop (using
-the *forge* command) is the best choice, since entropy can be gathered
-simply moving the mouse. Anyway, in case there is no GNU/Linux
-desktop, one can try generating keys directly on the server in a
-reasonable time usi EGD, the Entropy Gathering Daemon.
-
-On Debian/Ubuntu, install these packages:
-
-: # apt-get install libdigest-sha1-perl
-: # apt-get install ekeyd-egd-linux
-
-Then check ekeyd's default configuration in:
-
-: /etc/default/ekeyd-egd-linux
-
-Then download EGD from its website http://egd.sourceforge.net and
-finally start both EGD and ekeyd:
-
-: perl ./egd.pl # from inside EGD source directory
-: /etc/init.d/ekeyd-egd-linux start # as root on debian
-
-You should see both daemons running, they will feed as much entropy as
-they can gather from various sources. Usually one will experience a
-burst of entropy when they are launched, then the stream keeps going
-rather slow anyway.
-
-
-* Acknowledgments
-
-The development of Tomb was not supported by any governative or
-non-governative organization, its author and maintainer is an European
-citizen residing in the Netherlands.
-
-Test cases for the development Tomb have been analyzed through active
-exchange with the needs of various activist communities, in particular
-the Italian [[http://www.hackmeeting.org][Hackmeeting community]] and the mestizo community of
-southern Mexico, Chapas and Oaxaca.
-
-* Alphabetic Index
-
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